Exploring Digital Design: Multi-Disciplinary Design Practices (Computer Supported Cooperative Work)

Exploring Digital Design takes a multi-disciplinary look at digital design research where digital design is embedded in a larger socio-cultural context. Working from socio-technical research areas such as Participatory Design (PD), Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), the book explores how humanities offer new insights into digital design, and discusses a variety of digital design research practices, methods, and theoretical approaches spanning established disciplinary borders. The aim of the book is to explore the diversity of contemporary digital design practices in which commonly shared aspects are interpreted and integrated into different disciplinary and interdisciplinary conversations. It is the conversations and explorations with humanities that further distinguish this book within digital design research. Illustrated with real examples from digital design research practices from a variety of research projects and from a broad range of contexts Exploring Digital Design offers a basis for understanding the disciplinary roots as well as the interdisciplinary dialogues in digital design research, providing theoretical, empirical, and methodological sources for understanding digital design research. The first half of the book Exploring Digital Design is authored as a multi-disciplinary approach to digital design research, and represents novel perspectives and analyses in this research. The contributors are Gunnar Liestøl, Andrew Morrison and Christina Mörtberg in addition to the editors. Although primarily written for researchers and graduate students, digital design practioners will also find the book useful. Overall, Exploring Digital Design provides an excellent introduction to, and resource for, research into digital design. Exploring Digital Design takes a multi-disciplinary look at digital design research where digital design is embedded in a larger socio-cultural context. Working from socio-technical research areas such as Participatory Design (PD), Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), the book explores how humanities offer new insights into digital design, and discusses a variety of digital design research practices, methods, and theoretical approaches spanning established disciplinary borders. The aim of the book is to explore the diversity of contemporary digital design practices in which commonly shared aspects are interpreted and integrated into different disciplinary and interdisciplinary conversations. It is the conversations and explorations with humanities that further distinguish this book within digital design research. Illustrated with real examples from digital design research practices from a variety of research projects and from a broad range of contexts Exploring Digital Design offers a basis for understanding the disciplinary roots as well as the interdisciplinary dialogues in digital design research, providing theoretical, empirical, and methodological sources for understanding digital design research. The first half of the book Exploring Digital Design is authored as a multi-disciplinary approach to digital design research, and represents novel perspectives and analyses in this research. The contributors are Gunnar Liestøl, Andrew Morrison and Christina Mörtberg in addition to the editors. Although primarily written for researchers and graduate students, digital design practitioners will also find the book useful. Overall, Exploring Digital Design provides an excellent introduction to, and resource for, research into digital design Researching digital design -- Dagny Stuedahl ... [et al.] Research practices in digital design -- Tone Bratteteig ... [et al.] Analytical perspectives -- Andrew Morrison ... [et al.] Methods that matter in digital design research -- Christina Mörtberg ... [et al.] A matter of digital materiality -- Tone Bratteteig On mobility, localization and the possibility of digital genre design -- Gunnar Liestøl Unreal estate : digital design and mediation in marketing urban residency -- Andrew Morrison and Synne Skjulstad Whisperings in the undergrowth : communication design, online social networking and discursive performativity -- Andrew Morrison, Even Westvang, and Simen Svale Skogsrud Designing for sustainable ways of living with technologies -- Christina Mörtberg, Dagny Stuedahl, and Pirjo Elovaara Epilogue: A multidisciplinary take on digital design -- Tone Bratteteig and Ina Wagner. Front Matter....Pages i-viii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Researching Digital Design....Pages 3-15 Research Practices in Digital Design....Pages 17-54 Analytical Perspectives....Pages 55-103 Methods That Matter in Digital Design Research....Pages 105-144 Front Matter....Pages 145-145 A Matter of Digital Materiality....Pages 147-169 On Mobility, Localization and the Possibility of Digital Genre Design....Pages 171-188 Unreal Estate: Digital Design and Mediation in Marketing Urban Residency....Pages 189-219 Whisperings in the Undergrowth: Communication Design, Online Social Networking and Discursive Performativity....Pages 221-259 Designing for Sustainable Ways of Living with Technologies....Pages 261-282 Back Matter....Pages 283-294